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The Ed Banger boss to take over from Bicep 

Across October, November and December, Pedro Winter aka Busy P will play every Saturday at XOYO as the club's fourth resident. 

He's set to take over from the London...

Eight years in, and the house kid from Bordeaux is all grown up...

It’s hard to believe that Hugues ‘Bobmo’ Rey has been firing out leftfield dancefloor bombs for nearly a decade. Bursting onto a French scene that...

French techno don appears on Modeselektor's label

For many years French techno legend Garnier released on F Communications (F-Comm), the label he ran with Eric Morand. Most of his classics tracks such...

Debut single 'You Should Know' from new album.

With vivid colours and retro animation, the visual for Breakbot, aka Thibaut Berland's, new track harks back to Will Sweeney's seminal video for Birdy Nam Nam's 'The Parachute Endings', as well as capturing the magical, feel-good quality to Breakbot's now signature sound.

D'Julz tells us about his first gig

The boat was packed, which should have made any DJ very happy, except their heavy dancing was causing the turntables to jump pretty much every time two records were getting in the mix, causing gigantic train-wrecks!

The clash of label heads. Which one will win your party persuasion?

We pit two rival promoters against each other.

Pedro Winter plays us his landmark Ed Banger cuts

It’s a very special version of Take 10 this issue. Usually we ask people to talk about the 10 tracks that have influenced them over the course of their lives, but seeing as pioneering French electro label Ed Banger is 10-years-old this month — and releasing a big comp to celebrate — we thought we’d get Ed Banger boss Pedro Winter, aka Busy P, to talk about 10 landmark Ed Banger releases.

Ed Banger's newest and brightest star!

Breakbot’s music career spans an extensive list of remix credits longer than your arm, combining French flair with a discerning ear for creating well-crafted pop-style dance tracks that have a definite musical song-based architecture. This means ‘By Your Side’ as an album sits nicely on the dancefloor, but also has a radio-friendly character that makes listening to Breakbot’s long-awaited debut an aural pleasure.

Boys Noize opines on following true love, searching for the perfect sound, meeting Skrillex and Deadmau5, and having a strange relationship with melody...

In Germany towards the end of the nineties, Berlin was synonymous with hard-edged techno sounds but Hamburg was flying the flag for a more traditional flavour of house music. So the young Alex Ridha grew up surrounded by influences from Detroit and Chicago, which provided the fuel for a serious life-long vinyl addiction.